Source:businesswire.com
The Barron's 400 ETF (NYSE Arca: BFOR), a smart beta exchange-traded fund that seeks to track the Barron's 400 Index (B400), has completed its semi-annual rebalance based on the reconstitution and equal weighting of its underlying benchmark.read more

Source:pionline.com
The Chinese government's recent strong-arm market tactics might push back the day when A shares garner a toehold in emerging markets indexes, but some money managers already are looking ahead to the day when the country's huge, vibrant equity market outgrows those indexes.read more

A China Stock Primer: Upside For Shenzen? - 06/25/15

Source:barrons.com
China shares sold off last week, with about 13% shaved from the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets breeding more talk of a bursting bubble.read more

Source:barrons.com
The Barron's 400 Index welcomed Celgene (CELG) back into the fold during last week's twice-yearly index rebalance, a process that also added American Airlines (AAL) and eschewed McDonald's (MCD).read more

Source:barrons.com
Refreshing of Barron's 400 index shows a bigger dose of financial stocks. The index and Barron's 400 ETF enjoy a record outperformance, so consider it a vote of confidence for the highflying sector. read more

What Is The Barron's 400 Index And How Does It Work? - 07/29/13

Source:etfdb.com
In the ETF industry's relatively short history, investors have witnessed a slew of one-of-a-kind products hit the Streets; from plain vanilla funds to ETFs that utilize unique screening methodologies, investors can now choose from more than 1,400 different options. read more

Barron's 400 ETF: BFOR 101 - 06/10/13

Source:nasdaq.com
The Barron's 400 ETF (NYSE Arca: BFOR) launched under the ALPS ETF Trust on June 4th. MarketGrader Capital's John Morgan offers insight into the fund. read more

The Barron's 400 ETF - 06/08/13

Source:barrons.com
The difficulty of beating the stock market with any consistency keeps active managers up at night. But the Barron's 400 is a stockpicker's index: It seeks out the most fundamentally sound companies with the most attractively priced shares. read more

ALPS Launches Barron's 400 ETF - 06/05/13

Source:zacks.com
Barron's, the popular financial magazine and website, is also looking to help investors to accomplish this difficult task, having released its 'Barron's 400 Index' a few years ago. read more

The Barron's 400 ETF Launches - 06/04/13

Source:barrons.com
Then there's the Barron's 400. Nearly six years old and developed by investment-research firm MarketGrader in consultation with Barron's editors and Dow Jones Indexes, the B400 is a stock picker's index... read more

New Barron's 400SM ETF (BFOR) On The Market - 06/04/13

Source:prweb.com
The Barron's 400SM ETF (NYSE Arca: BFOR) launched today under the ALPS ETF Trust, based on the Barron's 400 IndexSM, a rules-based index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance... read more

Source:prnewswire.com
ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced the results of its Jaywalk Independent Research Provider Performance Awards for the fourth quarter of 2011. read more

Rebalancing Act: Our In-House Stockpicker - 3/17/12

Source:Barrons.com
Over the past three years, the Barron's 400 Index has beaten the S&P 500, the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P MidCap 400.read more

Eight Million Charts Served Daily - 12/24/11

Source:Barrons.com
StockCharts.com and MarketGrader.com have launched new stock-rating services that rely more on technical rather than fundamental indicators.read more

Source:seekingalpha.com
An Interview With MarketGrader - A Seeking Alpha Featured App that renders complex financial reports into measurable grades to help you find the top stocks in the best performing industries.read more

Source:prnewswire.com
MarketGrader.com, an independent provider of stock research to financial advisors, individual and institutional investors, announced the launch of the MarketGrader Research App on Seeking Alpha's new Investing App platform - providing clients a complete top-to-bottom analysis of most stocks listed on U.S. and Canadian exchanges. read more

Setting the Standard - 9/18/10

Source:Barrons.com
The Barron's 400, based on stock-selection criteria that stress soundness and growth, has beaten most other major indexes since its inception. On the way: a tradable version.HTML

Source:prnewswire.com
The SPA ETFs utilize the performance of fundamentally driven
indices created by U.S. research company MarketGrader to provide investors
with private and institutional access to an investment vehicle with equal
weighting, rebalancing and 24 fundamental factors.read more

Our Bogey Goes Banking - 10/01/07

Source:Barrons.com
IN THE FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL reshuffling of the freshly launched Barron's 400, the index's stock-selection
process alighted on some beaten-up financial stocks while taking modest profits in its heavy energy holdings.PDF

FIRST FUNDAMENTALS-BASED ETFS LAUNCH ON LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE - 09/14/07

Source:londonstockexchange.com
Spa ETF Plc (Spa) today became the second provider to join the UK's expanding Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) market
this month, issuing the first ETFs on the London Stock Exchange to track quantitatively-driven indices.read more

Market Beater - 09/03/07

Source:Barrons.com
Now, into this mix comes the Barron's 400, a new stock index built not as a mere reference point
but as a money-making tool for investors. The Barron's 400 collects the most fundamentally sound and attractively
priced stocks from all corners of the market, using a proven and disciplined stock-selection process.PDF

Source:FT.com
The first six ETFs will comprise the MG40, 100, 200, large cap, mid cap and small cap. They are all constructed
from a quantitative analysis of the 5,700 stocks listed on US exchanges. The system uses 24 factors to grade
stocks from 1 to 100 then selects the highest scoring stocks for the indices, which are constructed on an equal
weighting basis. Overlays provide sector and market capitalisation diversification, where relevant.read more

London & Capital founds ETF specialist - 06/01/07

Source:Citywire.com
London & Capital Investment Management has launched its own exchange-traded fund (ETF) firm because
it believes that London is set to emerge as a location of choice for the vehicles.
London has become a serious option for ETF listings since the Inland Revenue lifted stamp duty on them in March.
Their marketing throughout Europe has also been aided by the introduction of Ucits III.
read more

SPA ETF INTERNATIONAL ESTABLISHED TO LAUNCH EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS BASED ON FUNDAMENTAL INDICES - 05/29/07

Source:Bobsguide.com
Winning Quant-based MarketGrader Methodology to be Utilised by Spa ETF International. Spa ETF International,
a specialist provider of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), has been established to launch a family of ETFs based
on a fundamental quantitative methodology that consistently outperforms major US market indices.
read more

A Look at New ETFs Hitting the Market - 11/20/06

Source:Seekingalpha.com
It's not a secret that ETF manufacturers have caught a virulent form of dysentery this year,
dumping 140 new products into the market - a figure all the more impressive for the fact that they took
January off. But while more choice is always good - US markets now list around 340 ETFs, up from under
150 at the end of 204 - another 315, more or less, are working through the US Securities and Exchange Commission,
or are cleared and just await a bell-ringing slot to open up somewhere.
read more

Source:Sourcewire.com
London, 25 October 2006 - London & Capital, a boutique, UK-based asset manager, today announced its appointment of the
American Stock Exchange (Amex) as exclusive calculation agent for the MarketGrader Indices, beginning with MarketGrader
40 Index, one of the first merit-based equity indices available in the UK.
read more

Source:Prweb.com
Asset Management firm London & Capital's MarketGrader, the first merit-based US equity index available in the UK,
has returned 181.5% over the past three years. The rules-based, quant-driven index has consistently outperformed
the NASDAQ, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones equities indices. During the past 12 months, MarketGrader has returned 46.5% -
more than double that of the highest return of the key US indices.
read more

Black-box research - 10/20/05

Source:Institutionalinvestor.com
Is equity research the next profit-challenged business that will be automated by Wall Street?
PDF

Investorside Research Association Member

Source:Investorside.org
Certification of Members as Certified Providers of Investorside Research by the Investorside
Research Association is intended to enable investors to identify providers of investment research
who do not have investment banking conflicts.
read more